Items where Author is "Patrick, Ruth"

Article

Andersen, Kate, Redman, Jamie, Stewart, Kitty ORCID: 0000-0001-7744-8741 and Patrick, Ruth (2025) It's the kids that suffer’: exploring how the UK's benefit cap and two-child limit harm children. Social Policy and Administration, 59 (1). 57 - 72. ISSN 0144-5596

Reeves, Aaron ORCID: 0000-0001-9114-965X, Fransham, Mark ORCID: 0000-0002-9284-2517, Stewart, Kitty ORCID: 0000-0001-7744-8741, Reader, Mary ORCID: 0000-0002-2154-1813 and Patrick, Ruth (2024) Capping welfare payments for workless families increases employment and economic inactivity: evidence from the UK's benefit cap. International Journal of Social Welfare, 33 (4). 981 - 994. ISSN 1369-6866

Stewart, Kitty ORCID: 0000-0001-7744-8741, Andersen, Kate, Patrick, Ruth, Reader, Mary ORCID: 0000-0002-2154-1813 and Reeves, Aaron ORCID: 0000-0001-9114-965X (2024) Does reducing child benefits mean parents work more? A mixed methods study of the labor market effects of the UK’s ‘two child limit’. Social Service Review. ISSN 0037-7961 (In Press)

Stewart, Kitty ORCID: 0000-0001-7744-8741, Patrick, Ruth and Reeves, Aaron ORCID: 0000-0001-9114-965X (2024) The sins of the parents: conceptualising adult-oriented reforms to family benefits. Journal of European Social Policy. ISSN 1461-7269 (In Press)

Stewart, Kitty ORCID: 0000-0001-7744-8741, Patrick, Ruth and Reeves, Aaron ORCID: 0000-0001-9114-965X (2023) A time of need: exploring the changing poverty risk facing larger families in the UK. Journal of Social Policy. ISSN 0047-2794

Reeves, Aaron ORCID: 0000-0001-9114-965X, Fransham, Mark ORCID: 0000-0002-9284-2517, Stewart, Kitty ORCID: 0000-0001-7744-8741 and Patrick, Ruth (2022) Does capping social security harm health? A natural experiment in the UK. Social Policy and Administration, 56 (3). 345 - 359. ISSN 0144-5596

Monograph

Reader, Mary ORCID: 0000-0002-2154-1813, Andersen, Kate, Patrick, Ruth, Reeves, Aaron ORCID: 0000-0001-9114-965X and Stewart, Kitty ORCID: 0000-0001-7744-8741 (2023) Making work pay? The labour market effects of capping child benefits in larger families. CASEpapers (CASE 229). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London, UK.

Stewart, Kitty ORCID: 0000-0001-7744-8741, Patrick, Ruth and Reeves, Aaron ORCID: 0000-0001-9114-965X (2023) The sins of the parents: conceptualising adult-oriented reforms to family policy. CASEpapers (CASE 228). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London, UK.

Patrick, Ruth and Andersen, Kate (2022) The two-child limit & 'choices' over family size: when policy presentation collides with lived experiences. CASEpapers (CASE 226). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London, UK.

Stewart, Kitty ORCID: 0000-0001-7744-8741, Reeves, Aaron ORCID: 0000-0001-9114-965X and Patrick, Ruth (2021) A time of need: exploring the changing poverty risk facing larger families in the UK. CASEpapers (CASE 224). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London, UK.

Reeves, Aaron Samuel ORCID: 0000-0001-9114-965X, Fransham, Mark James ORCID: 0000-0002-9284-2517, Stewart, Kitty Judith ORCID: 0000-0001-7744-8741 and Patrick, Ruth (2020) Did the introduction of the benefit cap in Britain harm mental health? A natural experiment approach. CASEpapers (CASE 221). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London, UK.

Online resource

Stewart, Kitty ORCID: 0000-0001-7744-8741 and Patrick, Ruth (2024) Abolishing the two-child limit is just the start for tackling child poverty. British Politics and Policy at LSE (02 Jul 2024). Blog Entry.

Patrick, Ruth, Andersen, Kate, Stewart, Kitty ORCID: 0000-0001-7744-8741 and Tominey, Emma (2023) What Scotland's policies can teach Westminster about fighting poverty. British Politics and Policy at LSE (21 Nov 2023). Blog Entry.

Patrick, Ruth (2022) The cost of living crisis shows how much inequality matters, and how it affects everyday life. British Politics and Policy at LSE (10 Oct 2022). Blog Entry.

Patrick, Ruth, Stewart, Kitty ORCID: 0000-0001-7744-8741 and Warnock, Rosalie (2022) The cost-of-living budget: why it’s time to focus more squarely on need. British Politics and Policy at LSE (01 Jun 2022). Blog Entry.

Stewart, Kitty ORCID: 0000-0001-7744-8741 and Patrick, Ruth (2022) The most vulnerable households have been forgotten in the cost-of-living crisis and the consequences will be devastating. It’s time to scrap the benefit cap. British Politics and Policy at LSE (11 Apr 2022). Blog Entry.

Patrick, Ruth, Warnock, Rosalie, Reeves, Aaron ORCID: 0000-0001-9114-965X, Stewart, Kitty ORCID: 0000-0001-7744-8741, Andersen, Kate and Reader, Mary ORCID: 0000-0002-2154-1813 (2021) When the cap really doesn’t fit: populist policymaking and the benefit cap. British Politics and Policy at LSE (18 Nov 2021). Blog Entry.

Stewart, Kitty ORCID: 0000-0001-7744-8741, Reeves, Aaron ORCID: 0000-0001-9114-965X and Patrick, Ruth (2021) Why we can’t understand child poverty in the UK without thinking about family size. British Politics and Policy at LSE (30 Jul 2021). Blog Entry.

Kaufman, Jim and Patrick, Ruth (2021) What would a post-COVID-19 social security system look like, and how might it be built? Now is the time to explore alternative ways forward. British Politics and Policy at LSE (18 Jun 2021). Blog Entry.

Page, Geoff, Power, Maddy and Patrick, Ruth (2021) School uniform costs are a source of financial and emotional stress for families living on a low income. British Politics and Policy at LSE (20 Apr 2021). Blog Entry.

Cameron, Claire, Dewar, Laura, Fitzpatrick, Ciara, Garthwaite, Kayleigh, Griffiths, Rita, Hill, Katherine, Ladlow, Linzi, McHardy, Fiona, Millar, Jane, Patrick, Ruth, Pickett, Kate, Reader, Mary ORCID: 0000-0002-2154-1813, Robertshaw, David, Scullion, Lisa, Summers, Kate ORCID: 0000-0001-9964-0259, Tarrant, Anna and Webber, Ruth (2021) More, please, for those with less: why we need to go further on the Universal Credit uplift. British Politics and Policy at LSE (05 Mar 2021). Blog Entry.

Patrick, Ruth, Garthwaite, Kayleigh, Page, Geoff, Power, Maddy and Pybus, Katie (2021) Budget 2021: a missed opportunity to make permanent the £20 increase to Universal Credit. British Politics and Policy at LSE (03 Mar 2021). Blog Entry.

Garthwaite, Kayleigh, Page, Geoff, Patrick, Ruth and Power, Maddy (2020) Building back better: to end poverty, the government must listen to and learn from all forms of expertise. British Politics and Policy at LSE (07 Oct 2020). Blog Entry.

Power, Maddy, Patrick, Ruth and Garthwaite, Kayleigh (2020) Covid-19 and low-income families: why the chancellor’s ‘eat out to help out’ offer is hard to stomach. British Politics and Policy at LSE (10 Jul 2020). Blog Entry.

Patrick, Ruth, Reeves, Aaron ORCID: 0000-0001-9114-965X and Stewart, Kitty ORCID: 0000-0001-7744-8741 (2020) COVID-19 and low-income families: the government must lift the benefit cap and remove the two-child limit. British Politics and Policy at LSE (12 May 2020). Blog Entry.

Patrick, Ruth (2017) Inaccurate, exploitative, and very popular: the problem with ‘Poverty Porn’. British Politics and Policy at LSE (12 Apr 2017). Website.

Patrick, Ruth (2015) The realities of living on welfare are significantly different from government and media characterisations. British Politics and Policy at LSE (05 Jan 2015). Website.